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Slow Startup speeds

  • 28-01-2006 11:53pm
    #1
    eirebhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭


    I formatted my PC and reinstalled XP yesterday. I have installed a few programs, my C drive has 7.8GB used, 29GB free. I made sure that I wasn't installing any crap which slowed down the PC before the format.

    Anyway, I've been noticing today that the startup speeds are slower than ever before. I have just 4 startup files in MSconfig running:

    NvCpl
    dlbkbmgr
    ccApp
    Poptray

    It stays on the blue welcome screen for about 15 seconds. It then loads up the background image and that stays up for almost 40 seconds without anything else loading. After the best part of a minute the desktop icons and system tray icons start loading.

    This is taking way too long and I can't figure out what is causing it. Today I installed Norton SystemWorks Premier. This is the only thing I can think of that could be causing such slow startup speeds as I didn't do much else today. I have run ad-aware, run all the norton scans and defragmented the drive. Any idea's what could be wrong?

    Cheers.


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    msconfig - Diagnostic Startup - is it much faster or not ?


  • #3
    Puff Puff Pass
    Closed Accounts Posts: 121 ✭✭Puff Puff Pass


    NvCpl is a Norton AV process, This would affect it somewhat. Did you have the Norton Premier installed when you first got the machine? What RAM have you got?

    dlbkbmgr is a dell printer process - this is fine - nothing cpu hungry there :-)

    ccapp is again a norton process but it also it can (rarely) be a spyware pop up so check its startup folder in msconfig to make sure it comes from the norton folder

    Poptray is an email notifier but like above can also be disguised as spyware.

    With the last two i've mentioned, if either are located (started from) your c:/windows or c:/windows/system32 folder then they probably are bad

    Try booting in safe mode and then run ad-aware etc, this normally disables the virus/spyware so you can attack it

    There could be 101 things causing slow startups

    How many user accounts are there?


  • #4
    eirebhoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,013 ✭✭✭✭eirebhoy


    Capt'n Midnight wrote:
    msconfig - Diagnostic Startup - is it much faster or not ?
    I tried that and it started up in an instant so I went the trial and error route in msconfig to see what was causing it.

    Firstly I enabled everything to startup and it started up as described in opening post. I then disabled all startup items and it was still the same. No change when I disabled "process SYSTEM.INI file" and "process WIN.INI file" which only left the System services. Clicking on the services tab was the real trial and error and after about 15 reboots I found out that when I hadn't got "DHCP Client" ticked it was booting up fine.

    I noticed that when I hadn't it ticked, my network connection had to connect. When it was ticked the connection was up and running straight away. I assume that it is connecting before the desktop icons and tray icons even load? Should I just disable it or is it needed?

    /edit - I just realised that DHCP client is required for the connection to acquire an ip address.

    Cheers.


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